The name of this village was recorded as "Sesualik" by Captain
Frederick William Beechey
in 1831. In the 1880 Census conducted by Ivan Petroff Sheshalik was listed as
"Sheshalegamute" with a population of 100. Captain Calvin L.Hooper (1881, p. 44) published the name as
"She-shore-lik," and U.S.Navy lieutenant George
M.Stoney, in his manuscript
map dated 1883, wrote it as "She-sur-are-lick." Maximum elevation 3
m.